Thamara de Swirsky

[3] De Swirsky, publicized in 1911 as having the "most musical body in the world",[4] "created a sensation" in the United States with her barefoot dancing.

[12] Beyond the vaudeville stage, at the Metropolitan Opera[13] she appeared as a dancer in Orfeo ed Euridice and Zar und Zimmermann, both in 1909.

[22] Italian artist Piero Tozzi painted a portrait of de Swirsky, titled "His Flame of Life", when she turned away his romantic interest.

[26][27] In 1910, John Jacob Astor bought 25 seats for one of her concerts in Newport, Rhode Island, and sat by himself in the center to watch her performance.

[28] In 1933 there were reports that Swirskaya was engaged to marry twice-widowed New York lawyer Frederick G. Fischer and that his family committed him to an asylum to prevent the match.

[29][30] Thamara de Swirsky professed particular love for Los Angeles as early as 1910, recalling that "I knew when I first touched foot to your soil that here I would find the warmth and the glow which would call out the best that is in me.